(NEXSTAR) – “Silver Bells,” one of the most enduring songs of the season, evokes warm feelings of Christmas cheer with lyrics about snowy sidewalks bustling with holiday shoppers and happy children.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

I n the late spring of 1980, when Bob Marley embarked on a tour to promote his Uprising album with the Wailers, the stage was set for the reggae trailblazer to reach a new level in the culture. The ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

The veteran executive, set to exit the company next year, plays a tiger weatherman named "Bob Tiger" in what is credited as his first acting role. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Eagle-eyed (or ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

Though ranking talent objectively is almost impossible, almost everyone can agree that Bob Dylan should be considered among the top 5 songwriters of all time. As a general rule, it’s best not to make ...